Rumor: Curtis Lays Off Corporate Associates

Erik Even — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:35:09 +0000

Blawgs are reporting that Curtis held layoffs this week, targeting up to 15% of its corporate associates. Those targeted are said to be expected to work for the next ten weeks.

The firm, which hired five German lawyers in May, has neither confirmed nor denied the rumor.

If you know anything about layoffs at Curtis, please — send us a confidential tip!

Founded in New York City in 1830, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP is an international law firm with 240 attorneys in 15 offices worldwide, plus a strategic alliance with a firm in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Incoming Skadden Associates Get Litigation Rotation

Erik Even — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:36:15 +0000

Skadden, which on Friday laid off an undisclosed number of staff attorneys and 50 support staffers, is introducing a litigation program for its incoming class.

From the memo:

… To address this issue, the relative underutilization of first year corporate associates, and with the firm belief that first year legal work should serve to set the groundwork for a set of skills that all lawyers need, we are introducing a litigation component to the program. In addition this will assist our litigation departments with their staffing needs.

Our first year program will now include a six month litigation component in which you will work under the direct supervision of lawyers from the general litigation, white collar, intellectual property/patent, antitrust and/or mass torts groups… In order to implement this program fairly, all corporate associates will participate in the litigation component. One group will rotate into litigation in early April while the others will proceed to their previously scheduled “second” corporate rotation. In October, the groups will switch and those who were in the litigation rotation will be rotated to their other corporate rotation and those who have completed their second corporate rotation will rotate into the litigation rotation. We anticipate final assignments will occur in May 2010.

We will offer litigation training at the start of each rotation…

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, founded in 1948, is a prominent law firm based in New York City. With over 2,000 attorneys, it is one of the largest and highest-grossing law firms in the world. Forbes magazine called Skadden “Wall Street’s most powerful law firm.”

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Rumor: Curtis Lays Off Corporate Associates

Incoming Skadden Associates Get Litigation Rotation